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> ... snip ... >I asked him how the %$#@$%#@ was I supposed to do that on my thinkpad, and >he told me I had to get a PCMCIA CD ROM [yes -- sure -- there is a very >nice Sony CD ROM sitting on my desk, supported only by windows, with Sony >saying they will not be making an OS/2 driver]. > >Well I was really mad, and decided that was it, end of the line for OS/2 (and >I am a BIG OS/2 fan!) > >Well the IBM story was junk, you can indeed make diskettes from the CD ROM, >no problem and works fine > Robert, I'm glad you got OS/2 to install ok. I wanted to add that you can use (if you have a scsi cdrom available) a Trantor (Adaptec bought 'em) MiniScsi cable to install OS/2 from CDROM. OS/2 installs the PCMCIA drivers too late in the boot process to be able to use PCMCIA stuff to install OS/2. I found that I was able to get the OS/2 drivers from Trantor for their parallel printer cable type of controller (also came with the controller) and was able to modify the OS/2 boot disks to install their driver. With that setup I installed OS/2 Warp from my Toshiba 3401 scsi cdrom. Then, since I have the Adaptec PCMCIA scsi controller, I was able to modify OS/2 Warp after it was installed to use the PCMCIA controller. This gave me a much higher rate of speed for all my scsi devices. The parallel port controller works well but is not very fast. Since you already got OS/2 installed this whole note may be useless to you but I hope you find it somewhat useful for reference. Don.